Do you have a network card in your iMac? You could get an ADSL router
which would mean that you would only have to connect via your network
card. This would also mean you could connect other computer to the
network/internet with relative ease.

The ADSL router I have (which TotallyMac sell or did sell) is designed
for a PC but works fine with my Mac running OS X. Looking for ones that
actually list Mac support on the product would be a plus...I did have an
issue at one point and the freephone number took me through to the
States....they didn't actually believe the thing would work with a Mac,
which was pretty bizarre.

In article <>,
Philip Roy <> wrote:
> > > Of course he does! Ethernet ports were standard on Macs from the mid
> > > 90's. The first iMac was controversial largely for having *only* power,
> > > modem, USB and ethernet ports.
> >
> > I thought that would be the case but I didn't know for sure - weren't
> > the 400Mhz ones the first release of the iMac? Do correct me if I'm
> > wrong.
>
> The first iMac (the bondi blue one) did indeed have 10/100BaseT as well
> as a moderately unknown thing (at the time) called 'USB'. No floppy disk
> drive either, yeah!

Heh, I remember how much slack they got on that point. Does anyone, Mac
or PC, actually use floppies anymore. I was worried when I got my Mac
that i would miss having a floppy drive, but I haven't needed it at
all...

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:23:58 +1300, Philip Roy
<> wrote:
>
>The first iMac (the bondi blue one) did indeed have 10/100BaseT as well
>as a moderately unknown thing (at the time) called 'USB'. No floppy disk
>drive either, yeah!
>
What about the slot on the front?

Cheers,

Cliff
--

The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign
that the conspiracy is working.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:39:10 +1300, Philip Roy
<> wrote:
>In article <>,
> Enkidu <> wrote:
>
>> >The first iMac (the bondi blue one) did indeed have 10/100BaseT as well
>> >as a moderately unknown thing (at the time) called 'USB'. No floppy disk
>> >drive either, yeah!
>> >
>> What about the slot on the front?
>>
>What slot? There wasn't one. The first iMac (I used to own one) had a
>laptop-like pop-out CD drive. If you are meaning slot-lading CDs...that
>came later.
>
That's for a CD? No wonder it never worked for me.....<grin>

Cheers,

Cliff
--

The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign
that the conspiracy is working.

In <> Enkidu wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:39:10 +1300, Philip Roy
> <> wrote:
>
>>In article <>,
>> Enkidu <> wrote:
>>
>>> >The first iMac (the bondi blue one) did indeed have 10/100BaseT as
>>> >well as a moderately unknown thing (at the time) called 'USB'. No
>>> >floppy disk drive either, yeah!
>>> What about the slot on the front?
>>>
>>What slot? There wasn't one. The first iMac (I used to own one) had a
>>laptop-like pop-out CD drive. If you are meaning slot-lading CDs...
>>that came later.
> That's for a CD? No wonder it never worked for me.....<grin>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff

A little known fact about the original iMac is that it still had a
floppy drive controller, and even pads on the main board to solder a
connector to. I rigged up a cable once and tried it with the 800KB 3.5"
floppy drive from my old Apple IIGS. It worked perfectly with the
original Mac OS 8.1 the iMac came with, but after upgrading to OS 9 it
was disabled. Spoil sports :-<

In article <>,
madknoxie <> wrote:
>
> Heh, I remember how much slack they got on that point. Does anyone, Mac
> or PC, actually use floppies anymore. I was worried when I got my Mac
> that i would miss having a floppy drive, but I haven't needed it at
> all...
>

"Peter KERR" wrote
> > Heh, I remember how much slack they got on that point. Does anyone, Mac
> > or PC, actually use floppies anymore. I was worried when I got my Mac
> > that i would miss having a floppy drive, but I haven't needed it at
> > all...
> Only floppies brought in here now are from PC users...

In article <3f9b21e2$>, "T.N.O." <>
wrote:
> "Peter KERR" wrote
> > > Heh, I remember how much slack they got on that point. Does anyone, Mac
> > > or PC, actually use floppies anymore. I was worried when I got my Mac
> > > that i would miss having a floppy drive, but I haven't needed it at
> > > all...
>
> > Only floppies brought in here now are from PC users...
>
> heh, we are in the process of disabling floppy access at work.
>
>

Haven't used one at all for years, replaced it with
File sharing over a network
Zip drives
CDs
DVDs
USB Ram drives

Just make sure the ADSL box is a modem/router (as opposed to just a
modem), and that it has an Ethernet port instead of (or in addition to)
a USB port. The USB ones may require platform-specific drivers.

A modem/router will, in addition to basic ADSL connectivity, also
provide ENAT service (Extended Network Address Translation), which lets
you share the internet connection among multiple machines, as well as
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), which means your machines
will automatically be assigned dynamic IP addresses from the private
range without having to be configured individually.
>Do the dick smith ones work?

I bought a D-Link DSL-500 from Dick Smith. The salesperson assured me
their house-brand box did exactly the same things and cost a little
less, but I thought I'd stick to a brand I was familiar with, just to be
safe (I already had a D-Link 8-port switch).

As for machines I am running, I have a 10-year-old Centris 650 (MacOS
7.6.1), a 5-year-old beige PowerMac G3 (MacOS 9.0.4), and a
one-and-a-half-year-old iMac G4/800 (MacOS 9.2.2), all successfully
accessing the Internet through this setup.

The only thing that tripped me up was the Ethernet port on the DSL-500
has its transmit and receive pins swapped. I think the idea is that it
will plug straight into a single PC with a standard (non-crossover)
Ethernet cable. Then I was reminded (by the helpful Telecom technician
on the phone) that my switch has a special port marked "Uplink", which
simply means _its_ transmit and receive pins are swapped, so the ADSL
box could plug into that with a standard Ethernet cable. Once this was
sorted out, my ADSL was live.

The DSL-500 can be managed through a Web interface, or by a command-line
via its serial port. Most of the normal functions are accessible through
the Web interface. It turns out it's also possible to enable Telnet
access to its command line, though current versions of the firmware seem
to leave this off by default.

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